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Re:The two types of C programmers (a provocative thesis) by preseinger on Sunday April 23, 2023 @07:23PM (#35681769)
obviously yes

yet c code is inarguably more error-prone than basically any other language

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Re:The two types of C programmers (a provocative thesis) by lelanthran on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:37AM (#35684710)
Nope. Many errors in JavaScript, python, PHP, etc are caught at compile time in C.

Of course, the errors that do get through might be more severe in C than in python, but not always.

After all, the most expensive and destructive RCE ever was in a piece of Java software.

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